OpinionOctober 29, 1996
SPEAKOUT
REGARDING the caller who said he had to wait a long time at the doctor in Cape. I also had a recent doctor's appointment in Cape. I brought my two kids along because I did not have a sitter. After two hours at the doctor, they were both screaming, tired and hungry, and I was very angry. ...
Lost in the waiting room
REGARDING the caller who said he had to wait a long time at the doctor in Cape. I also had a recent doctor's appointment in Cape. I brought my two kids along because I did not have a sitter. After two hours at the doctor, they were both screaming, tired and hungry, and I was very angry. The next appointment I had with him, I knew I'd probably have to wait, so I left the kids at home and brought a book. After the second hour went by, I went up to the desk and facetiously asked if I came on the wrong day because the office was unusually quiet. The receptionist checked her book, and it turns out they had forgotten I was even there and had all left for lunch.
Campaign signs are eyesores
EVERY DAY I drive on any of the streets of Cape and see all those tacky, trashy, litterbug signs advertising all the local politicians. I could puke. I counted 15 of these signs on one street corner alone. I'm proud to say I for one will have not one of these cheap eyesores in my yard or property. Let's try to keep Cape clean and keep some class around here.
Wage issues needs heart
I HAVE one thing to say to you people. If you ain't got the heart to give this raise to these people who are working to make a living and scrounging to make ends meet and to put food on their tables, you're not much of a Christian.
Carnahan is tax man
SO TAX man Carnahan is for cutting the tax on food. Ho, ho, ho. Is it not the Republicans in Jefferson City who have been trying to get this tax taken off food for the past four years? Ho, ho, ho. Also, tax man Carnahan is against Proposition A on the minimum wage. Why doesn't he come out and campaign against this minimum-wage increase if he's against it? Ho, ho, ho. He's smart in that sense because the election is the same day that Proposition A will be voted on. He doesn't want to hurt his chances to get to be the tax man for the next four years. People, wake up. Learn about these politicians and what they stand for.
Land of opportunity
LIKE IT or not, you Clinton lovers are going to have pull your heads out of the sand and admit something. Your fearless leader has gotten himself between a rock and a hard place. According to William Safire, if the slickmeister pardons his fellow Whitewater thieves, Senate leaders will have indicated they plan to initiate impeachment hearings. If he doesn't pardon, his upstanding jailed friends will sing like birds, and Bill and his ugly wife, the smartest woman in the universe, will join their buddies in the pokey. Now for the really scary thought. Upon Clinton's removal from office, Vice Vegetable Gore will assume the presidency. Just think about it, a burned-out hippy from Arkansas who doesn't stand for anything gets elected president and then turns the reins over to a guy who overdosed on Miracle Gro years ago. Who says opportunity doesn't exist in this country?
Sales tax is wrong approach
THE CITY council is to be commended for the plan for the water plant. The only fault I find is the sales tax. Water users should pay their own way. I don't believe in having all who come to shop here paying for things we should carry ourselves. A family with a low income spends all of its money for sales-tax items. This is not true for larger income people. Sales taxes are regressive and grossly unfair. I hope the council charges the tax.
Taxes and spending
IF YOU believe taxes are too high, if you believe government spends too much, how can anyone vote for Bill Clinton, Emily Firebaugh, Jerry Costello or any other liberal Democrats as far as that goes?
A promise not kept
WHEN BILL Clinton took office, he promised to end the revolving-door policy of letting trade advisers take jobs for foreign companies right after they leave the administration. However, Web Hubble managed to do $250,000 worth of work for a foreign company shortly after he left the Justice Department where he headed the International Division of Criminal Law. I guess this was one of those promises that he really didn't mean to keep.
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Water plans and yard signs
IT SEEMS to that when Cape Girardeau bought this water system, they bought a pig in a poke. If we do not vote for bond issue and the tax, they will raise our water rates 59 percent. This is entirely too much. And now we find out that the schools are going to come at us in April with a 69-cent tax increase. I would like for these bigwigs to tell these little people who have to live on Social Security and $5 to $6 an hour wages how we intend to pay for all these taxes. I notice in the paper that the city council is going to make an ordinance about political signs. Why make an ordinance on political signs when they passed an ordinance on yard sale signs on utility poles -- and they do enforce it? It looks terrible in this town, on the weekend especially, when all these people have these yard sales and garage sales. They put up these signs, but they never come back to take them down.
Need to instill pride
IT WAS very heartening to read in the paper recently that our local Lowe's was helping to spruce the Civic Center with donations of materials and employees' time. If this very worthwhile organization is able to get going again, I would hope that the new leadership is able to instill some pride in the improved facility and teach the young people how to take care of it. The new Salvation Army building is such a nice facility for the community but has been trashed and seriously abused by the young people who use it the most. This is very costly and takes money away from their program. I would hate to see this happen to the Civic Center also.
Judges aren't underpaid
THE JUDGES think they are underpaid. What a laugh. I wouldn't give them one dime more. Trouble with this country is lawyers and judges without common sense. I am against judges. I will not vote for any of them.
Need party affiliation
NOBODY SHOULD vote for anybody who isn't affiliated with a party, because in Washington the only way to get things done is to be affiliated with a party. That way you can have a majority vote. Nobody's going to be a majority of one. Therefore, you've got to vote for the person with party affiliation like Emily Firebaugh.
What happened to blue?
IN YOUR recent Learning story, you have questions and answers from the reference desk of the Cape Girardeau Public Library. I believe one of the answers is incorrect. The question is "what colors make up a rainbow?" Anyone who took physical science at Southeast Missouri State University knows the answer is Roy B. Biv, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Blue is missing in your answer. Did Roy change his last name Iv?
Don't sit there and take it
I'D LIKE to comment on the Speak Out about the long wait at the doctor's office. I think there are a lot of patients who need to let their doctors know that we do not intend to sit in the office waiting room for two hours, as this lady probably did, and then sit another 30 minutes in the examining room to be seen by a doctor for five or 10 minutes. Many of us take off from work. We lose pay or take vacation in order to see the doctor, and then we end up sitting there for two or three hours. If you call ahead to find out if the doctor's running on time and you get there late, then you lose your time in line. You don't get your turn until when you actually check in, which I think is wrong also. If doctors are aware of what's going on and that they are overbooking patients, then that's a different problem that needs to be addressed to the doctors. But I think they should be aware of what's going on.
Judges take ego trips
WE WERE told that by increasing the judges' salaries we would be getting better ones. Those in office ran hard campaigns, and, although they knew the pay, they want a lot more and a very generous pension plan. If the judges can make more in private practice, why stay on the bench? Ego trips at our expense.
Signs, not cigarettes
CAPE CITY council wouldn't pass a law forbidding minors from having cigarettes. They said it would be too hard for the police to enforce. Now the Cape council attacks your First Amendment rights in the form in where and how you can put your political yard signs on your own property or pay the penalty of $500 and 90 days in jail and they tell the police to enforce this code. They can't give the police a raise in salary because there isn't any money. The city is going to have to spend a lot of money in court on attorney fees, because my yard signs will stay right on the curb like they are right now.
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